Quotes About Family

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys...Mr. Duracell and Mr. Energizer.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month.

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

Getting together Social gatherings are popular with Italians, and it is common to invite relatives and friends for a meal, even if there is no special occasion. On the weekend, many people visit their relatives or go to a soccer match. Some families like to have Sunday lunch in a restaurant, such as these people in Tuscany.

It's a sad day when so many people shirk the most basic responsibilities of life that simply being respectable becomes behavior worthy of special attention. In other words, I think the people you describe are doing what they should. A society has weak values when it regards going to work every day and taking care of your family as heroic.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought African people believe in the oneness of the African family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us.

Înainte, m? gândeam aproape tot timpul la so?ia mea. Acum, cu cât trec zilele, so?ia se întunec? parc? în minte ?i mama se lumineaz?. Ca la fântânile cu dou? g?le?i. Una se scoboar?, alta se înal??. Acum nu se înal?? decât mama.

Eu cred c? exist?, în via?a lumii, o clip? când to?i oamenii se gândesc la mama lor. Chiar ?i mor?ii. Fiica la mam?, mama la bunic?, bunica la mam?... pân? se ajunge la o singur? mam?, una imens?...

We had no money, but I felt we were rich: the pleasure of having some pecorino cheese, a few garden-grown tomatoes, and a liter of olive oil; of making love in the car, with Alba just sleeping quietly in the corner, was beyond wealth. There is no price for that. It was so impossibly beautiful - all three of us breathing the same rhythm, the days going by...

When I read a book, everything around me stopped existing. All the unhappiness in my family--my parents' bitter fights, my grandmother's sadness at having had everything taken away from her--disappeared. I merged with the characters.

I think the absence of love in the family and the need to create a family with art world and public is really strong. Psychoanalyst would say it's a clear picture! But it didn't appear like that in the beginning.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.